Associate Professor Masoud Kamgarpour

I grew up in Iran and moved to Canada for the end of high school. I did my undergraduate studies at the University of Waterloo and PhD at the University of Chicago with Vladimir Drinfeld. Afterwards, I did postdocs at the University of British Columbia in Vancovuer and the Max Planck Instittue for Mathematics at Bonn. I moved to UQ in 2013 to take up a lectureship.

My research area is known as the Langlands Program, sometimes described as a Grand Unified Theory of Mathematics. Initiated by the Canadian mathematician Robert Langlands in the 1960s, this program seeks to establish deep connections between seemingly unrelated areas of mathematics, offering a powerful framework for understanding complex equations through their symmetries.